Featured questionable doctorates

We (our church) receive correspondence and other items in which it seems everybody and their dogs have doctorates. I agree that questionable doctorates are a problem. In Christian circles we need to inspect the problem or problems that are creating the need for preachers feeling they need to be called doctors. One is just good old pride, plain and simple. Something that interacts with that, though, is that we seem to have lost the ability to discern whether people are reliable and speaking the truth -- so we need letters behind folks' names, and titles in front of them so we will know. I know quite a few people who put more stock in that than what people actually say and do. This can be a very false foundation.

 

Having a doctorate means little

Many are bad preachers and teachers

 

As long as the person is BA (born again), they then have the HS (Holy Spirit) living in their lives, and He is able to guide them into His Truth in the Holy Bible. Having a DD can prove to be a Double-Dunce!

 

Think that the key here is to get to a biblical balance, as have been in churches who saw any degrees training as being of the world, as only needed :"calling and Holy Ghost". and yet others see that DR label as required to even preach or teach in the pulpit!

 

The Pentecostal way is to have the anointing and calling as all important!

 

Congrats

I am theologically educated, so there is no agenda here

I also encourage some type of Bible edication and have Bible College for foreign countries mostly Africa but also Nepal, Indonesia, India and Phillipines

 

If you were born with a mind gifted in reading such that you can read faster than average, and have the ability to retain what you have read, academia will love you and bestow credentials such that you can jump to the head of the line.

Scripture teaches that God does not respect those who are prized by the World's Value System. Look at our honored, the well born (UK royalty) or are powerful (Gates) or well connected (Hunter Biden).

We live in a world where R rated movies are said to be adult, rather than raunchy. Or infanticide is said to be health care.

Clever wordsmiths create ways to rename what is bad so it seems good. And they probably were trained by "PHD's."

 

No, think that we just need to cultivate the discussion!

 

Will your book be for the Mormons like what Waletr Martin was to the JW?

 

Yu and I agree more than we disagree- I think

 

My son got his doctorate in NT under David Alan Black at SEBTS. I am immensely impressed by the knowledge, understanding, and wisdom he gained through that process. I have the privilege of teaching with him, and often get help from him.

 

Amazing to me how some still see higher education as being somehow bad thing, even to the point where pastors better off not learning the Greek AND Hebrew biblical languages!

 

University of Wales a "Laughing Stock"

BBC: "The University of Wales is a 'laughing stock' for having awarded degrees [in conjunction with] Trinity College of the Bible in Newburgh, Indiana....The Quality Assurance Agency, which regulates universities in the UK, said it released a statement in July which warned higher education institutions 'that they should not be collaborating with organisations that are not accredited'. The University of Wales said this is what prompted them to begin to question their relationship with Trinity."


2011 • University of Wales Abolished

BBC: "The troubled University of Wales (UoW) has been effectively abolished and its council chairman has resigned....The future of the University of Wales had come into question following....scandals involving courses validated by the University of Wales at outside bodies in the UK and overseas....the QAA...found serious shortcomings in the way the university collaborates with colleges around the world."

"Education minister Leighton Andrews told BBC Wales earlier this month that...the university's leadership [was] 'untenable'. He said what had happened...was 'deplorable' and he thought the University of Wales 'probably requires a decent burial'."

 

Disagreement is one thing you must expect to consistently find if you post on the Baptist Board. You will need to learn to take that in stride.